My limited experience with prime rib is that roasting it at a lower
temperature, then giving it a blast of very-high heat just before resting and
serving, works much better than the reverse method. It allows for a more even
doneness throughout, and yields a better crust on the exterior without further
cooking the inside. I hope you give it a try if you ever do a standing rib
roast again.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike and Jenna
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 8:46 AM
Subject: [blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
Jon,
I am glad you and Emily and the girls had a better Christmas this year. We
just had a quiet Christmas here. I had to work both days so nothing special. I
made the prime rib for new years eve dinner. I salted it and then before
cooking I added some garlic pepper and I roasted it at 500 for 30 minutes then
dropped it to 325 for about an hour and 19 minutes. I roasted potatoes right in
the pan with it. It turned out okay for a first time.
Mike
From: blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blindcooks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rawlings
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 10:06 AM
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
Jacob: I got to smell a bottle of white truffle oil back in my school days,
and never wanted anything to do with the stuff ever again. You're right, it is
an oil meant for finishing a salad or a dressing, or to be applied with a light
hand to protein dishes served hot. This Christmas, difficult as it was, is
still far ahead of last year in that we didn't come home to find our dryer on
the front porch with a note from the fire department stating the thing nearly
burned our house down. We're not having to deal with the strong smell of smoke
in the house while Emily is pregnent, and dealing with being displaced from our
house for ten days while the problem is being dealt with. And, we're not
coming down with bronchitis like we were this time last year. The entire first
quarter of our year sucked for us, beginning on Christmas Day, and ending the
day the youngest was born.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Kruger
To: blindcooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 4:03 AM
Subject: [blindcooks] Re: Did everyone survive the Christmas holiday?
Hi there, John, et al
Christmas/festive season is always going to be a somewhat eventful time,
for some of us anyway, and, besides the ilnesses, etc., hope you all enjoyed at
least some of it, and, hope you can look forward to a good new year, etc.
On my side, food didn't have too much to do with it, besides my sister,
again, giving me a slightly abnormal form of ingredient to play around with for
a while.
She got me both white and black truffle oil, and, while need to do a bit
more research, it seems like you primarily use these as a form of salad
dressing, or finishing off ingredient for warm dishes, since it seems like you
don't really want to try any form of actual cooking with these oils, but, let's
see - will ask for suggestions in another mail or two.
Anyway, hope everyone got at least one gift they find
interesting/rewarding, and, again, all the best for everyone!
Stay well
Jacob KrugerBlind BikerSkype: BlindZA"Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is
versatile..."On 2017/12/28 18:49, Jonathan Rawlings wrote:
Hi fellow list members:
I don't know about any of you, but now that Christmas has come and
gone, I feel like I have ssurvived something big and gone on to tell about it.
The baby has had cold simptoms off and on for most of the past several weeks,
and then, the Tuesday before Christmas, the stomach flu ravaged our family as
well. It hit the three year old first and hardest the Tuesday prior to
Christmas Day. It attacked her in the evening and kept us all up until past 3
in the morning. A couple days later, Emily got it as well. This was on top of
the three year old fighting off a cold at the same time. Fortunately, everyone
pretty much seems to be over it all, and somehow, I made it through it all with
no illness whatsoever. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I'm glad I have so
far.
Christmas for us was a good one this year, despite at least one person
in the family fighting some sort of illness. Our finances were very tight for
the holiday season this year, so it was a modest Christmas for our family.
Still, Heather made out pretty well, getting her very own doll house we found
on sale earlier this year, and complete with furnishings and little household
items. I am somewhat dismayed that my big gift this year was something I have
never had an interest in and don't want, that being an air fryer. I want
nothing more than to return the thing and get something I want, but my Mom has
to find out where she put the receipt. If that fails, I may sell it on E-Bay
or something. I have no problem with someone else using one and enjoying it,
but I have a major issue with the way this thing is being labeled and marketed.
There is no exact substitute for the process of shallow or deep frying foods.
Perhaps you may get similar results with a couple of items, but the fact is
that hot air cannot produce the same results as hot oil when cooking food. It
is scientifically impossible. So, I'm anxious to be rid of mine. The other
big gift I got this year was a small amount of the King Arthur flour sourdough
starter. I have been giving a starter serious thought for some time, but
haven't got around to it until Emily ordered it for me. I'll give it my best,
and hopefully, this time, I can get a really good starter going. So I'm
curious...how did the rest of you make out this year? Are there gifts you were
given that you didn't want, or things you wanted but didn't get? I'm very
interested in getting a Pazel maker as well as a Belgin waffle makeer for
myself if I can, but I'll have to wait and see how things go with getting this
air fryer off my hands. We did not make anything special for Christmas this
year, but we were given a honey baked ham by a good friend of mine, which we
enjoyed a couple days ago with some cheesy scalloped potatoes that the baby
couldn't get enough of.
Jon
